SHARED LIVES PLUS LIMITED

Registered charity 1095562 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NAAPS UK, NAAPS UK LIMITED, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ADULT PLACEMENT SERVICES LIMITED, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ADULT PLACEMENT SERVICES LIMITED UK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ADULT PLACEMENT SERVICES UK LIMITED · also registered in Scotland as SC042743 (OSCR)

Supports people and local organisations UK-wide to deliver and develop Shared Lives and Homeshare as community and family-based support for older and disabled people

Objects

TO ASSIST AND RELIEVE DISABLED PEOPLE, OR VULNERABLE OR DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE, WHO ARE IN NEED BECAUSE OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING), IN RELATION TO THEIR ACCOMMODATION, CARE AND SUPPORT.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity posted a small surplus of £20,135 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reversing a deficit from the previous year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £377,320, which includes £215,546 in designated funds set aside for future risks, while free unrestricted reserves were £245,546. The trustees consider this level of reserves sufficient to cover winding-up costs and ensure continuity of activities in the event of a significant drop in funding.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• National Lottery Awards For All Scotland — “Shared Lives Plus is grateful for the support provided by the following funders: National Lottery Awards For All Scotland” (source page)
• National Lottery Awards For All — “Shared Lives Plus is grateful for the support provided by the following funders: National Lottery Awards For All” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aisling Duffy
• Andrea Mary Sutcliffe · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ben Marcus Grimes
• Claire Rachel Morphet
• David Matthews
• Emma Victoria Williams
• IAN EDWARD COLEMAN
• Katie Jane Allen
• Lorraine Suzanna Mighty

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SHARING LIFE TRUST.

• SHARING LIFE TRUST income £114k
• TEAMS LIFE CENTRE income £178k
• SHARED INTEREST FOUNDATION income £683k
• THE PENDERELS TRUST LIMITED income £9.5m
• INDEPENDENT LIVES (DISABILITY) income £3.3m
• SUPPORTING LIVES income £134k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.